Artist: VA
Title: Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz Volume 7 (Give Me Your Love)
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Motor Music
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul-Jazz, Latin Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks,log,cue,m3u,scans)
Total Time: 59:54
Total Size: 512.45 MB
Album Info
The King Mojo Club, often known as the Mojo, was a nightclub in Pitsmoor, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England located at 555 Pitsmoor Road, that operated between 1964 and 1967.
Peter Stringfellow and his brothers had been running the Black Cat Club from St Aidan's church hall in the city, which proved a success. In 1964, they opened a new venture, the King Mojo Club, in a converted house on Pitsmoor Road to the north of the city centre. The house had recently served as Dey's School of Ballroom Dancing and benefited from a sprung dance floor. The club never received a drinks licence, but did have a coffee bar.
The club quickly became a venue of the Northern Soul scene, with popular American acts such as Wilson Pickett (backed by Reg Dwight's Bluesology), Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner, and Geno Washington playing. It also hosted Edwin Starr's first UK gig, and Don Covay and The Goodtimers.
Stringfellow experimented with a records-only night on Tuesdays, then an original concept. He advertised the list of records which he would play in advance in the local newspaper.
The club hosted up and coming live acts, including Pink Floyd and The Who. The Small Faces played their first gig outside London at the Mojo,and The Kinks worked out the arrangement of "All Day and All of the Night" while at the club.
In 1967, Stringfellow along with his brother Geoffrey decided to refocus the club on psychedelic music, renamed it the "Beautiful King Mojo", and redecorated it accordingly. They booked Jimi Hendrix, who played despite a complaint about drug use. The Mojo also received complaints about noise, and its licence was revoked later in the year. It was converted into a bingo club and was demolished in the 1980s.
01. The Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love
02. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Strange Games & Things
03. Elis Regina - Mundo Deserto
04. Walter Wanderley - Sambao
05. Astrud Gilberto - Nao Bate O Coracao
06. Manu Dibango - Wouri
07. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Who Is She
08. Randy Weston - In Memory Of
09. The Wild Magnolias - (Somebody Got) Soul Soul Soul
10. Michael Naura - Take Us Down To The River
11. Marvin Gaye - Calypso Blues
12. Willie Bobo - Roots
13. Mary Lou Williams - Praise The Lord
14. Certain Lions & Tigers - El Soul Condor
15. Michael Legrand - Maracaibo
